The article "Hungry Hearts", written by John Lahr in The New Yorker, is an overview of two plays: "Pen" and "A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop". "Pen" is about a child who leaves his parents, both of whom are trying to control his life. "A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop" is about a child whose parents "leave" her, one by dying, and the other by retreating into madness. A quote from the article that helps set the tone and voice of it is "Home is not always where the heart is... sometimes family members can't find their hearts with two hands and a map. " Here he's taking a serious matter and making it humorous.
The article is pretty well structured, he spends a little bit of time on the first play, and uses a quote, "I'm supposed to leave you...", from it to transition into the next play. He seems to assume an intellectual audience, and though he gives, some background information, he assumes you know some about what he's talking about.
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You might wanna make this a bit longer. And also keep in mind that Mrs. Sumner didn't want a book report. Rather, she wanted some conversation about the topic instead of telling us exactly what happened in the article / reading. Just put a link up to the article if you can. That way most of your blog can be spent conversing on what you actually thought about the writing. Sorry for like flaming you >_<. Just don't want anyone to get a bad grade cause they may have been misinformed.
Good start Kevin. I just need more. Do some exploring of what the author's tools are. A review might not be the best idea for an exercise of this type, also.
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